Not all the info was suspect, though.
With the assistance of a "giant infectious disease dork," Boing Boing presents a spotter's guide to everything you need to know about the virus before it gets you. Capital Century has a historical tour of our nation's greatest outbreaks that covers the 1976 swine scare: "The ominous name of the flu alone was enough to touch off civilian fear of an epidemic."
TMZ and other sites link to vintage video of TV public service warnings from 1976. It's been pandemania at Google Maps, where they are charting flu-case data.
"Now you can see the cases spreading in real time—as the WHO declares them....Have fun watching," cheered Gizmodo. Google's Flu Trends tool finally had a trend to track, while Facebook had to rely on Tru Friends, maps that charted the swine flu discussion epidemic.
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